[ursuscamp]

They abandoned Swift recently.

[Cyphase]

The public announcement was less then a week ago. Meanwhile in TFA:

> ... the entire port took about two weeks.

So he was ~halfway in when he made the Swift announcement.

[hackpelican]

Doesn’t sound like a bad thing to evaluate the most obvious alternative to build confidence before officially pulling the plug.

[hypeatei]

Swift adoption had been dead long before the actual announcement. It's likely Rust was being considered long before this two week experiment with LLMs.